Re: [9front] Free Carrots #5: MNT Reform

[william@thinktankworkspaces.com]

Yes I made sure to unzip the archive which is obvious. I also made sure
to rename the image to 9fron.iso

I can cat the image to the sd drive and it boots up with 1.2G fs with 
30G of unclaimed space or empty partition. Not sure how to reclaim that 
extra space. 

so inst/start was the plan to try to reclain that space but 
after it does mountfs I run into the following

Preparing menu...% mount /srv/9660.dist /n/dist /n/distmedia///9front.iso
mount: mount /n/dist: unknown format
% mount /srv/dos /n/distmedia /dev/sdU7b1211/dos
% mount /srv/9660.dist /n/dist /n/distmedia///9front.iso
mount: mount /n/dist: unknown format

This is an uncompressed image. 

I also just tried to build the iso from scratch but ran into other issues. 

 mk /tmp/9fron.arm64.iso
mk: don't know how to make '/tmp/9fron.arm64.iso' in directory /sys/lib/dist

Next is to skip mountfs and go to copydist. I think I will need to make some modifcations
 to /rc/bin/inst/copydist to get it working. But then I got a bit lost with 

disk/mkfs -z 16372 -U -s /n/dist /n/newfs /sys/lib/sysconfig/proto/allproto

I guess bind the system root to /n/dist then try to run it or do something different

not sure of the proto. I read it might be better to run 

disk/mkfs -a -s dist proto > arch but I think I got an error on that




Quoth james palmer <james@biobuf.link>:
> On 17 July 2022 04:23:01 BST, william@thinktankworkspaces.com wrote:
> >I gave up and cat 9front-c5cf9b3e26033272c5f57b9a860c335e63786045.reform.img.gz > /dev/sdU7b121/data
> 
> that is a gzip archive,
> surely you want to unzip it first? try:
> 
> gunzip <9front-c5cf9b3e26033272c5f57b9a860c335e63786045.reform.img.gz >/dev/sdU7b121/data
> 
> - james
>